Public Relations and Its Relationship to the Success

PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE SUCCESS OF TEACHER ACHIEVEMENT IN TEACHING A. Definition of Teacher In general, in Indonesian, the definition of a teacher is to refer to a professional educator with the main task of educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, assessing, and evaluating students. Meanwhile, in Law Number 14 of 2005 concerning teachers and lecturers, it is said that teachers are professional educators with the main task of educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, assessing, and evaluating students in early childhood education through formal channels of primary education and secondary education. From some of the above definitions, it is clear that professional teachers are people involved in education whose job is not only to transfer knowledge from teachers to students but more than that. Teachers act as substitutes for parents in schools whose job is to direct students to achieve educational goals and make them become fully human through examples that can be emulated, enthusiasm or encouragement to be better and guidance or direction so that they are always on the right track in developing the potential that exists in themselves. Teachers have a burden or task to foster the ability of students to improve and educate the nation's life, such as the educational objectives listed in the 1945 Constitution paragraph 4, namely educating the nation's life. B. Definition of Human Relations and Group Process Effendy (2009: 50) states that human relations are persuasive communication carried out by someone to other people face to face in work situations and in organizations with the aim of increasing enthusiasm for work and cooperation in order to achieve satisfactory results. Group Process (group process) refers to how organizational members work together to get things done. Then Shaw (in Nimran, 1999), argues that group process is a relationship between two or more people who interact with each other in such a way that the behavior and performance of one is influenced by the behavior / performance of other members. C. Principles of Human Relations There are several principles that are carried out in public relations or public relations including: • A teacher is expected to be able to create a pleasant teaching and learning process. • In the implementation of learning, not only pursuing the achievement of educational goals, so that students are forced to learn and do their assignments, but teachers should also pay attention to the psychological aspects, social aspects, and other aspects of learners • Develop students' talents, interests and willingness to the maximum • Implement an interesting and challenging learning process • Appreciate the results of efforts • Equip themselves with learning media that are relevant to the material to be taught • Have harmony between their own abilities and the subjects they teach • Provide fair evaluation results to students D. The Effect of Human Relations on Teacher Performance Human relations activities bring fresh air to the work atmosphere which can affect teacher performance to be more productive. This means that Human Relations has a significant effect on the competence of teacher performance in teaching. The group process approach is seen as the right step to explore student learning motivation. Group process approach can also help teachers in realizing effective and productive classroom conditions. E. Influence of Group Process on Teacher Teaching In this approach, the teacher encourages group development and cooperation, so that the group process can maintain an effective classroom organization in the form of creating intimacy between fellow students. With this group process approach, some students feel a responsibility to be the best for their group. F. Teacher's Role in the Implementation of Group Process 1. As a manager Teachers as learning managers, teachers play a role in creating a learning climate that allows students to learn comfortably through classroom management. As a learning manager, the teacher has 4 general functions, namely: planning learning objectives; organizing various learning resources; and leading and supervising. 2. Teacher as a mentor The teacher as a mentor is guiding students so that they can determine their various potentials as their provision, guiding students so that they can achieve and carry out their developmental tasks, so that with this achievement they can grow and develop as the ideal human being who is the hope of every parent and society. The teacher's job is to look after, direct and guide so that students grow and develop according to their potential, interests and talents. 3. As a motivator The teacher as a motivator, the learning process will be successful when students have motivation to learn. Therefore, teachers need to foster students' learning potential. To obtain optimal learning outcomes, teachers are required to be creative in generating student learning motivation. 4. As a provider of advice and assessment The teacher as an assessor acts to collect data or information about the success of the learning that has been carried out. By conducting an assessment, the teacher will know or determine the success of students in achieving learning goals. And also the teacher can determine the success of each program that has been planned by the teacher himself.